News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

The Vice-President Azarias Ruberwa's provincial tour and the detainees' escape in the Buluwo prison, Katanga province, are the major headlines in today's local papers in Kinshasa. The Vice-President in charge of the Political, Defense and Security Commission proceeds with his visits to the DRC…

The activities of the UN Mission in the DR Congo (MONUC), the Vice President In Charge Of The Commission On Political, Defence and Security Matters' current mission to the country's interior, as well as the recent breakthrough in the partnership of the DRC and its foreign donors, constitute the…

Today's local papers devote their major headlines to the tour of DRC provinces by Vice-president Azarias Ruberwa within the framework of the DRC reunification process. Some papers analyze the presidential decrees appointing officers for the military regions and the Congolese national police. The…

Today's local papers mainly focus on the adoption of government programme by the Parliament. Some papers comment on the Paris meeting of the Donors' consultative group for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the end of magistrates' strike and the announcement of the return of calm in Katanga after…

The Special Representative of the United Nations for the DRC and MONUC Force Commander's activities, MONUC's repatriation operations of foreign armed groups in DRC, the commemoration of the first anniversary of the All-inclusive agreement as well as the socio-political malaise between the Katangese…

Today's local press in Kinshasa devotes its comments to the Sunday incidents in Lubumbashi, Katanga province, between the militants of two political parties; the political activities conducted by the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) in Kinshasa and the normalization of…

Today's Congolese press focuses on the draft law relating to the political parties, the legal rules and regulations on the police and the army forces adopted Monday by the extraordinary meeting of the transitional government. Some papers also devote their comments to the all-inclusive agreement and…

Kinshasa, 5 April 2010 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for DRC, Alan Doss expressed his deep concern about the situation prevailing in Mbandaka, Equateur province, attacked by a rebel group on 4 April last. "We regret the use of weapons as a means of expression or claim. We…

On Tuesday 15 December, MONUC Force Commander General Babacar Gaye was in Dongo, Equateur where he led an assessment mission comprising both military and civilian staff. On the same day, the first military elements of MONUC, led by General Abdul Austin Appogan Yella, Commander of the Western Brigade…

Kinshasa, 2 November 2009 - Ross Mountain, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo will leave the UN mission on November 6th 2009, after five years in this position. As well as Deputy Special Representative, he has been the Resident Coordinator…

MONUC Information Note Kinshasa, 30 March 2009: Since the end of the joint DRC / Rwanda military operation, MONUC has continued its sensitization efforts for the combatants of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). These efforts already made it possible for MONUC, through its…

Following the attacks of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels on civilian populations in many territories of Haut Uele district in northeastern DRC since 25 December last, the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) has declared that it is now taking steps to both…